What songs do you want played at your funeral

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alanthemanc
alanthemanc Bots Posts: 512
edited 4. Jul 2011, 17:16 in Community Chit-chat archive
Ha Ha , I don't want to sound morbid, or think your gonna keel over today, but I was thinking what songs would I want at my funeral.
Here goes
1..Man With The Child In His Eyes................. Kate Bush.
2..Man Of The World .....................................Fleetwood Mac
3..Stargazer................................Richie Blackmore's Rainbow.
4..Goodbye To Love...................... The Carpenters
5..Thunderstruck.............................A.C.D.C.

A bit varied, I was going to include anything by Thin Lizzy, and Camel, but you can only pick 5, what are your top 5 funeral songs. Alanthemanc
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  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
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    April in Paris sung by Sarah Vaughan. It was supposed to be played at our wedding but due to a slip up by the registry office staff it wasn't, we had something else which was obviously memorable - not. At my dad's cremation the congregation read The Lord is my Shepherd. It was fabulous, far better than grotty wavering singing. Mr DD will be played out to the ovens on a wave of Champagne Supernova by Oasis.
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • alanthemanc
    alanthemanc Bots Posts: 512
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
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    D.D.
    Some might say that whatever you choose at your funeral, sort of reflects your personality while your alive. That Sarah Vaughn, and Ella Fitzgerald are legends, good choice. ALanthemanc
  • alanthemanc
    alanthemanc Bots Posts: 512
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
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    Del
    Ha ha, see what I mean, you seem to want to go out with a smile :P :grin::grin::grin::grin::grin::grin::grin::grin:
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
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    Oooooooh Alan, you smooth-tongued flatterer you! Yup, it takes a legend to recognise other legends. :lol:
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • alanthemanc
    alanthemanc Bots Posts: 512
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    D.D.
    I think my mother wants Frank Sinatra at her funeral, but she does like Queen, Oasis, but she hates the Smiths . Strange woman, although I can't see anyone picking " Heaven knows I'm miserable now ", that would be toooooo depressing. Alanthemanc
  • dachshund
    dachshund Member Posts: 8,937
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
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    Hi Alan.
    i love westlife and i want you raise me up and flying without wings.
    joan xx
    take care
    joan xx
  • carola
    carola Member Posts: 786
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
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    zipeedaydoodah

    they told me I should go to rehab .. I said no, no, no!

    smile - judy garland
  • daylily
    daylily Member Posts: 619
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
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    Bat out of hell- meatloaf
  • Poppyg1rl
    Poppyg1rl Member Posts: 1,245
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    Always look on the bright side of life - from The Life of Brian, never fails to to make me laugh :lol: I want lots of smiles at my funeral! Xxx
    'grá agus solas'
    'Love and Light' translated from Irish. X
  • coco67
    coco67 Member Posts: 2,374
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    If your happy and you know it clap your hands,

    follow the yellow brick road,

    i am the one and only by chesney hawks, (awful song but id be laffing)


    black is band everyone has to wear bright colors or fancy dress, and a party down the pub after.
  • NinaKKang
    NinaKKang Member Posts: 663
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
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    Staying Alive by the Bee Gees :D But seriously? Probably Don't Stop Me Now by Queen.

    I would like it recorded that, if I wasn't a Sikh and was being buried rather than cremated, I would like my epitaph (is that the right word?) to read:

    Nina Kaur Kang
    BURIED ALIVE

    Nxx :D
  • liesa
    liesa Member Posts: 821
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
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    afraid im a bit boring... told mine so many times
    Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman, time to say goodbye
    eva cassidy somewhere over the rainbow,
    songbird


    my hubby wants norman greenbaum, spirit in the sky...
    love and hugs
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  • barbara12
    barbara12 Member Posts: 21,281
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    Smile by Nat King Cole....wish I could be there to hear it... :grin:
    And I love Cocos if you are happy and you know it clap your hands,,, :lol:
    Love
    Barbara
  • cloud9
    cloud9 Member Posts: 385
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
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    I would choose Going Home by Dire Straits
    Songbird and Fields of Gold by Eva Cassidy.
    Sue (Cloud9)
  • valval
    valval Member Posts: 14,911
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    been thinking about this all day and got no idea but will keep thinking .
    could always have once twice three times a lady(i wish was always a tom boy)
    val
  • lindalegs
    lindalegs Member Posts: 5,393
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
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    ♪It's Over, I ain't Coming Back♪ by Level 42

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7NvYgufPds
    Love, Legs x
    'Make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing'
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 29,443
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    My Mum had 'memories.....' and

    Rod stewart's 'sailing'

    Dad had a 'whiter shade of pale'

    Ll have no idea but liked yours legs :smile:

    love

    Toni xx
  • tkachev
    tkachev Member Posts: 8,332
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    2 people have quoted smile as their choice...is this the Smile written by Charlie Chaplin...smile when your heart is aching....etc?

    Just wondered.

    Try a little tenderness by Otis Redding,
    Don't look back in anger Oasis
    Looking for you Garnett Mimms.

    I hope I will have done something worthwhile by the time I die.

    Elizabeth
    Never be bullied into silence.
    Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
    Accept no ones definition of your life

    Define yourself........

    Harvey Fierstein
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 29,443
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    You already have Elizabeth.....

    you had your kids :smile:

    Love

    toni xx
  • katekelly
    katekelly Member Posts: 975
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
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    I'm going into church to 'O mio babio caro'.
    Having the hymns 'The servant King', 'Shine Jesus Shine', 'Thine be the Glory' and 'Here in the love of Christ I stand' - and when it's time for the curtain to go round at the crem I'm having 'Who wants to live for ever' by Queen!!
  • tjt6768
    tjt6768 Member Posts: 12,170
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    Janet is under strict instructions... Obviously I am shedding my mortal coil before her.. :shock:

    David Bowie - Sorrow (it has been let known that this is not a reflection on Janet with her long blonde her and her eyes of blue..)

    David Bowie - My Death

    Job done, shovels out, stick me in the ground... :grin:
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    Cleo - 1996 to 2011. RIP
  • tillytop
    tillytop Member Posts: 3,460
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
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    ooh - thought I was the only one who thought about this sort of stuff and it was just me being morbid due to my currently not very upbeat state of mind! :roll:

    Pirates of the Carribean theme tune, played VERY loudly by the brass band my brother plays with (they are very good).

    And/or Sarabande by somebody "classical" I can't remember at the mo.

    Or, in my really morbid moments, I think I would like "Ne Me Quitte Pas" (Don't leave me) sung by Nina Simone (guaranteed to make even the most unemotional person howl I reckon - and I'd like to think someone would cry at my funeral :roll:)

    Tilly xxx
  • suncatcher
    suncatcher Member Posts: 2,174
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
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    Another one bites the dust by queen
    Who wants to live forever by queen
    :lol:
    Joanne
  • valval
    valval Member Posts: 14,911
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
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    suncatcher wrote:
    Another one bites the dust by queen
    Who wants to live forever by queen
    :lol:


    love both these
    val
  • mirabella
    mirabella Member Posts: 272
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
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    My request would be:
    BECAUSE YOU LOVED ME--CELION DION
    FEILDS OF GOLD--EVA CASSIDY
    TOMMORROW NEVER COMES-- ROWAN KEATING
    THEN FOR THE HELL OF IT ANY BIT OF COUNTRY WILL DO ESPECIALLY A BIT OF JOHNNY CASH!!
    THATS A HARD ONE TO THINK OF,especially as I have just got my life back to some sort of normal ask in again in about 10yrs :grin:
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